Patch 1.03 and a Balance Update Now Available for Guardians of Middle-Earth

February 12, 2013 Written by Jason Dunning

Guardians of Middle-Earth was added to the North American Instant Game Collection last week, with two new DLC characters added to the game today, and you can now download patch 1.03 for the MOBA title, as well as a balance update.

First up, here are the patch notes:

Implemented overhaul of latency-related fixes.

Streamlined matchmaking and lobby queues, making lobbies easier for players to find.

To help prevent matchmaking to bad servers, matchmaking will ignore servers that are reporting 0 ping.

Addressed some issues that cause player parties to split.

And now the much bigger Balance update:

All Guardians

Guardians have gotten a slight pass on their Basic Attack damage do their starting damage matches exactly the damage they are doing. In some cases, the damage has gotten a little higher or lower even though the actual damage output across all levels is the same; in a few cases, some of the Basic attack damage was lowered a little and put into another ability; in these cases, the Basic Attack damage is mentioned such in the case of Runsig below.

All Tacticians now have a standardized 10% starting Resistances; in the past, some Tacticians started with 13%.

Resistances for Dwarven Valor decreased to 11/18/26/35 from 20/30/40/50.

Note: with the recent increase to the Stone Giant’s Controlling Influences Reduction buff, players that take Thráin were previously able to break the Controlling Influences Reduction cap of 100%, which is unintended.